I've been thinking recently about the first editing job I got after moving to LA. It was 20 years ago, which is hard to believe. I don't remember how I got the job, but I do remember it was on the top floor of a tall office building on Wilshire and had great views of downtown to the east and the Hollywood Hills to the north. The company was a startup called Spotrunner, and my job was in the "tailoring" department. Essentially I would customize a template ad for a specific cus

I was going through some old work notebooks today and found this journal entry from 2020 that I completely forgot having written. I'm going to include it in full here, augmented with photos from then and from 2026. What a difference 6 years makes! I think I supressed a lot of what happened during that time (shocker!), but it's a nice reminder to look at it now and feel that what felt so accute at the time can dissipate and change with the passage of time. Not being in the mid

I've been fully enjoying all of the festivities surrounding this '26 World Cup right here in North America. I live near Koreatown which has everything you could ever need, including a high number of sports bars per capita (at least compared w the rest of LA). So I grabbed my camera(s) and joined the throngs of fans packing bars and outdoor watch parties. Mexico v South Korea was wild, I've never seen that much energy on Western Blvd. pre-match festivities outside Wilshire We